Jacket owned by Vernon Reid: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

A jacket owned by Vernon Reid. The jacket is black with a green, leather right sleeve and a red, leather left sleeve. The sleeves and waist are trimmed in yellow. The jacket has two front pockets trimmed in purple leather. Embroidered on the right breast in red lettering is “Vernon.” Embroidered on the left in yellow lettering is “Living COLOÜR.” The back of the jacket has a large, multicolored circle emblem Inside the emblem is a stylized image of a person eyes and forehead with red hair, spiked hair. A tag on the inside of the jacket identifies the size as “42.”

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1985-1995
• Manufactured by: Creative Custom Products, Inc., American
• Owned by: Vernon Reid, American, born 1958
• Subject of: Living Colour, American, founded 1984
• Type: jackets
• Medium: leather, cloth, thread
• Dimensions: H x W x D: 29 × 31 × 4 1/2 in. (73.7 × 78.7 × 11.4 cm)
• Place made: Bloomfield, Essex County, New Jersey, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Clothing and dress
• Topic: Instrumentalists (Musicians)
• Topic: Rock and roll (Music)
• Topic: Singers (Musicians)
• Object number: 2021.92.4
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Donated by Vernon Reid
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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